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You know he just watched the movie. They all just saw the movie.

Someone should tell him what happened to Gatsby...

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How did I miss that Gatsby is a cautionary tale? I totally missed this, and all of a sudden the story that I never thought deserved the reverence it got, is a valuable lesson in opulence. Oh man, very embarrassed..

Trump is more like The Great Gassy -- he's both a windbag and odiferous.

Like he ever read a book. He saw the movie instead.

Trump is The Grate Fatsby.

One day a president will undo all of Trump's refurbishing and find all of the Epstein documents implicating Trump hidden behind the marble walls and under the floors.

Lol it's kinda like Starship Troopers and the first Scarface that way.

Margaret Atwood: "Tell me about it."

A doppelgänger: “He is a criminal and a liar: Gatsby's wealth was obtained through illegal activities, and he lied about his past to reinvent himself… He is dishonest and selfish: He is described as selfish for how he used his wealth and for his overall life choices.”

Not dysfunctional! I’m an artist!!

This was written by Fitzgerald himself in The Great Gatsby. Only the names were changed. Life imitates art on this occasion.

Sounds just like our Donald

This list was 1,475 long this morning. docs.google.com/document/u/1... Trump's spiritual advisor is number 1,313. He's in prison for raping a 12 year old girl. The TDS guy is number 1,381. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_... Something is definitely keeping them all together.

Jaysus, don't anyone ever present him with a modest proposal.

I swear one of his aides hates him and is telling him to lean into rebuilding things and to do Gatsby parties while arguing he should be allowed to starve people (they all hate him, but one hates him enough to sabotage him.)

Perfect.

Ah, the orange moron expounding his knowledge of absolutely sweet fuck all! Tone deaf, repulsive, vacuous, morally bereft, vulgar with no understanding of anything beyond grift, greed, and his absolute ignorance.

A novel which he has never read, nor would understand if he even ever tried, AND Trump will never have any good taste, class, or style. So WTF is he talking about?! 🤦🏻‍♀️

A bigger ass there never was than this ignorant orange idiot.

Yeh, like he's read it.

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That is NOT New, that's what they do to MAKE MORE MONEY Selling your Soul. 👇

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Abuse of power and privelige, excess and disregard for other people..... How Trumpian can you get??

He twists everything into a shit show.

Someone invented the Jerry Springer show as a cautionary tale.

Just like the tech bros got Orwell‘s „1984“ kinda wrong

“they’re a rotten crowd…”

As if he ever read Gatsby! Or any other book. I doubt he could stay awake through the movie as well.

The crash and fall can't come soon enough.

He’s rubbing our face in it while taking all the social safety nets away knowing that the greedy employers don’t pay a living wage.

Sophomore in high school me. Great Gatsby on the docket. Learned what “juxtaposition” means. Never have I ever forgotten that moment.

Would love to see Trump create the Julian English lifestyle.

He doesn’t read especially a big novel so WTF

He wouldn’t get the reference. He wouldn’t get Scrooge McDuck either

I didn't think Trump was that literate.

I'm just paralyzed with happiness

I’m sure he’s NEVER read “The Great Gatsby”.

Exactly

A book he never read…

"Classic novel" You mean classic paper weight people keep on their shelf with all of their other classic paper weights that have never so much as been leafed through while they were talking on the phone right? (They haven't spoken on the phone since beepers were a thing either.) 😛

He’s not tone deaf — he’s deliberately, cruelly provocative.

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They will love the one with him wondering around with the Japanese Prime Minister trying to herd him to the right spot. Lots of stamina there.

Trump, long known for his fear of wind, and now cautionary tales....partied Nero style

Hopefully that doesn't mean we'll have a Great Depression and a global war in the next 20 years.

Not surprising from someone who said ‘the great Hannibal Lecter’!

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Trump wouldn't know it came from a book.

"first time as tragedy, second time as farce"

Nobody tell him what era came after Gatsby

Those idiots read 1984 and thought it was an instruction manual

Lol like he's ever read a novel

Everyone from the ghost of George "1984" Orwell to Mike "Idiocracy" Judge has complained about their cautionary tales being used as an instruction manual.

[The very rich] are different from you and me. Thank God.

You know irony is lost on that imbecile, right?

Gatsby was found floating in his pool, dead.

Well he never read it, so...

F Lee Bailey too

I know there's like a half-dozen movie adaptations but let's not pretend he's even read a Dr. Seuss book, let alone F. Scott Fitzgerald, so I'm sure he'd completely miss the message.

Tom and Daisy being oblivious to the damage they do. People starving. People missing paychecks. People without Healthcare.

This all tracks. Killer pandemic, The Roaring 20s, The Great Depression. 😕

Trump also thinks Darth Vader is the good guy in Star Wars.

"The emptiness of materialism." A MAGAt thesis. He's turned all of his gaudy properties, including the partially destroyed WH, into a mound of ash.

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They're creating the Torment Nexus.

Anyone recall how the Great Gatsby ends?

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

Gatsby is my favorite book and character. I even named my daughter after Jordan Baker. It makes me sick that Diaper Boy has touched it.

If he's actually read that book, I'll eat a copy.

All disguised on an imaginary novel not to be rejected or targeted by the Ultra rich of the time.

Edgar Allen Poe: I wrote this short story, "The Masque of the Red Death", to show the existential horror from the rich and powerful walling themselves off in their enclaves while the public suffers Donny: "Guess what, folks..." www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader...

Because trump is an illiterate demented child He never read the Great Gatsby, at best he watched the movies He's never had an intelligent, thoughtful conversation about any literature, Trump's mind is not developed enough So yes to him it's a movie about opulence & how to be the center of it all

Now we know what MAGA ACTUALLY stands for — Make America Gilded Again

Trump probably never read beyond the title. "Great" triggered him and that was the only word that stuck from the whole book.

“look, it SAYS he was great. it say it right there in the title”

"The Great Gatsby" is one of those books I never want to read again.

please let the ending be true in real life!

As long as Claude sides with Trump, it must be true.

“In that day the Lord will punish the gods in the heavens and the proud rulers of the nations on earth. They will be rounded up and put in prison. They will be shut up in prison and will finally be punished.” ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭24‬

He does realise he will always be Tom Buchanan

Reminder - 85 percent of mostly poor and working class people in rural America voted for The Great Gatsby party.

Lots of this type of energy with this administration

Definitely another “let them eat cake” moment.

Read an interview with Michael Douglas years ago where he talked about how stunned he was to meet so many people who thought Gordon Gekko was someone to emulate. Douglas was cursed w/an inability to play a villain convincingly. He just can't be hated.

Pretty good, but back in his Epstein Island days Trump wasn't orange, just his normal pasty white. What nobody mentions is he had ridiculous eyebrows back then, like werewolf eyebrows.

Kalin means the 47th POTUS.

If he thinks of it at all, it's the 1974 Redford (RIP) and Farrow version, and it's about a house and party, not about love and trust and betrayal and classism and racism.

This keeps happening. With 1982, with Lord of the Rings, it's like that books are just too subtle for 12 year olds to understand.

Can we cut to the car scene that closes out the whole thing? We know how the rest goes up to that finale.

You mean the same guy that thought "Born in the USA" was a patriotic song doesn't get nuance? 🤔

And Trump has something of Benjamin Button about him; he's certainly childish enough.

Want to bet not a single invitee ever read The Great Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby continues to be a great book in it's examination of the hollowness of wealth. Now there is another twenties, but more unequal than before. Though it's a more grotesque version of that with Trump, a proud fascist actively ruining your life. It's like Gatsby in a Marquis De Sade book!

I’m telling you these are meme culture people doing memes to pick a fight

He wasnt kidding about the gilded age, right?

Love how these people dunnae have a Nick Carraway among 'em...

Are we great again….. ?? #AmericaZombieNationRising

Any garage mechanics out there with a grudge?

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Well no, Gatsby wasn't an "invention", he was a reference to the lifestyle Fitzgerald saw around him.

In Trumpedo’s defense, he never read the book.

And when these sad sacs of shit finally get their comeuppance, I vote for a Tale of Two Cities lifestyle. I'm taking knitting lessons in preparation...

So, the Torment Gatsby

See I don’t even know the story very well

yeah i know the great gatsby! hey i wonder what happened to him